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Category Archives: Personal
What’s The Basic Conflict In My Play?
I’m reading Playwriting: Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play by Louis E. Catron. I’m on chapter eight and writing out the scenario for my one-man play. What’s the basic conflict? What does the protagonist want? I want to be happy. … Continue reading
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The most important thing in life is your connection with the people you love
What are the alternatives? What else would you put number one? Some people might say God is more important than people, but in my religion, Judaism, the way you love God is by loving your fellow. People who get lost … Continue reading
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Why do I believe that belief in God is important?
My life has often been lonely, but it has been less lonely when I’ve believed in God, when I’ve believed that God listened to me and cared about me and judged me and intended to reward and punish me according … Continue reading
You Can Learn From Everyone, But Should You?
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist preacher’s kid at SDA college campuses. Until ninth grade, I had no non-Adventist friends. I learned to see the world the way my father preached even though I felt little connection with his preaching. … Continue reading
Everything we do affects other people
Everything we do affects other people. If we hole up in our room and either read a book or watch TV or listen to a lecture or exercise or meditate, that choice we make is going to affect us and … Continue reading
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I’m Safe
I told my therapist I see things I could do to increase my connection to others, but I don’t care enough to do them. I asked her what do my clothes (I was wearing old black shorts and an old … Continue reading
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Inner Game
I’m writing out a long list of things I’m awesome at. Carlos Xuma recommends carrying this in your wallet to look at regularly and develop inner game. * Admitting I was wrong. * Getting help. * Dealing with difficult people. … Continue reading
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The Homeless At Starbucks — Ghosts of My Christmas Future?
I look at the homeless in Starbucks and feel uncomfortable. Their clothes are ragged. My clothes are ragged. They occupy tables for hours, buying cheap refills. I occupy tables for hours, buying cheap refills. The staff tell us both, “I’m … Continue reading
The Moonies
I was 12 years old and living at Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley when the Jim Jones murder/suicide of over 900 people took place in Guyana. The religion had been big in the San Francisco Bay Area and … Continue reading
Pilot of the Airwaves
My parents left me behind at Pacific Union College in January 1980 so that I could graduate in June with my eighth grade class at the church elementary school. I stayed with friends of the family and had a lot … Continue reading
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